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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines (Cassidinae) » Ischyrosonychini » Physonota » Horsemint Tortoise Beetle (Physonota unipunctata)
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Tortoise Beetle Larvae - Physonota unipunctata
Copyright © 2018 David Israel

Tortoise Beetle Larvae - Physonota unipunctata
Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, Becker County, Minnesota, USA
July 1, 2016
I found these larvae on the weeds next to the lawn around the Visitor Center at the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge. They seem to have two appendages on the end of their abdomens that they decorate with excrement. I think that they are a tortoise beetle larvae.

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Contributed by David Israel on 16 June, 2018 - 6:30pm
Last updated 2 January, 2019 - 5:32pm

Moved
Moved from Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines.
… v belov, 2 January, 2019 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Curt Harden, 18 September, 2018 - 10:02am login or register to post comments

Physonota unipunctata
nice life cycle pics
… Blaine Mathison, 17 June, 2018 - 7:14am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thank-you Blaine. That looks like a match to me. One more insect photo identified. The larvae kind of got my attention. I had never seen any like them.
… David Israel, 17 June, 2018 - 11:12am login or register to post comments

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